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previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … as women, tend to systematically demand lower wages. Also, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume expectations are rational This paper shows that while...
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explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …
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This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA … both countries, both matching frictions and efficiency wages play a significant role in enabling the model to fit the data …
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Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for … very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for … that unemployment upon graduation has the causal effect of reducing future earnings prospects. …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …
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